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Y&OE PLATTSMflDQJTIH J)tMrM0- SECTION TWO CASS COUNTY'S NEWSpaper THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL Thursday, November 17, 1940 PAGE FIVE The Plattsmouth Journal "PREDICTIONS OF THINGS TO COME" Furse's Fresh Flashes i:sT.r.i.ism:n ix issi UNITED PRESS AND NWNS SERVICE t'liMlslirwl semi-weoklv, Mnndnvs nnl Thurs liivs. ;it 4 ! - 1 1 :: Miiin Sti ff t. riatlBtnouth, 'ii.x.s Cnuniy. N'elrnskn. RONALD . FURSE Publisher FRANK II. SMITH Editor BERNARD A. WOOD ... .Advertising Mgr. i. O. C. Osterholm, Plant Superintendent Helen E. Heinrich, News Editor ineBRASKfis M " fassocaron , SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year In Cass and adjoining counties, $4.00 pef year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the city of Plattsmouth. By carrier in Platts mouth, 15 cents for two weeks. Kntfreil jit tlie Iostof f !. nt Plattsmouth. Nf-lTiisUii :is sci'iinil l.i.s mail mntlf-r in iu--'iit;nicf witli the Ait of Cunsrcss of March ::, 1ST9. A Tl lore; IT FOR TODAY "lis slraiujc but true; for truth is always tiui(jc stranger than fiction. Bvron WOULD STUDY AIR MAIL PAY The Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce is making a study of air mail pay, with the idea of estab lishing the justification of subsidies paid to the airlines. The Committee recently asked the Civil Aeronautics Board to lend expert personnel to help in these studies and to make a report of the existing pay Kibsidy formula and its application since 1045. The CAB, through its chairman, re ported that since congress cut the budget estimates for the board, it has no personnel available for such an assignment. Conse quently, the senate committee will have to do the best it can, although it will have available the records of the CAB. Senator Edwin C. Johnson, of Colo rado, reports that a previous study re vealed that under established formulae, fifty-five per cent of air mail payments to domestic trunk carriers should be clas sified as a subsidy and that ninety-six per cent of the payments to the feeder car riers in 1948 should be likewise classified as a subsidy. He thought that these con clusions should receive careful analysis and intimated that congress desired an early separation of subsidy payments from proper compensatory air transportation costs. -k 6,009 TAX-FREE FARM CO-OPS According to the last official listing of Jhe U. S. Treasury Department, there are G.009 farmers cooperatives of all types doing business tax-free in the United States. The treasury estimates that the gov ernment could collect up to $20,000,000 more in income taxes annually if congress would plug the loophole which permits the cooperatives to escape the payment of taxes, just like other business enter prises. The question is certain to receive some attention in congress. Representative Noe M. Mason, of Illinois, who has made a study of coops for the House Ways and Means Committee, says that they go far beyond simply marketing farm products and that they are "big business." He points out that the largest of all American coops, the Cooperative Grange-League-Federation Exchange, of Ithaca, New York, P has given up its tax-exempt status volun tarily and paid the government, last vear, $928,000 in income taxes. - 4r REFUNDS TO VETERANS Beginning in January, the Veterans Administration will distribute some $2. 800,000,000 to approximately 10,000,000 veterans. The refund represents a return of premiums paid on service life insurance policies and will range from ninety cents to $528, depending upon the amount of insurance the veteran carried and the length of time he paid premiums. It will take some time to mail checks to all the veterans entitled to refunds. Tn order to be fair to all entitled to payments, the VA will use the last three digits of the veterans serial numbers as a guide to the mailing of checks. This means that those whose serial numbers end with 000 come first, those with 001 come next and those Avith 999 come last. The method, it is said, places officers and men on the same basis. fc -c -k FOR RURAL TELEPHONE SERVICE The bill to expand telephone' service in rural areas provides for new and ex panding phone systems along the lines of the Rural Electrification Administration loans. NATIONAL IDITOftlAl Mssocuitam can put a car There is no are necessary to provide reasonable tele phone service for those who live in rural areas. It is spending millions of dollars xo provide ports of the homes, but it has made available the nece; sary power to assist the farmer in the mechanization of his various processes. DOWN MEMORY LANE . .r . 2D YEARS AGO E. A. Wurl, chairman of the retail sec tion of the Chamber of Commerce, extend ed invitation to Santa Claus to visit the boys and girls of the town and communitj on Dec. 14th ; . . Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Var ner and daughter became residents of the there Nov. 18 V X It's not ice that makes you slip it's what you mix with it. It didn't dawn on a local woman that burglars had been in the house when she returned and found all the dresser draw ers pulled out and the contents on the floor. She thought her husband had been looking for his socks. The first Ten Commandments are the hardest to keep. r The parking across the street is what disappears while you are making a U-turn. -t There are some kids at 18 who just can't believe that some day they'll be as dumb as their fathers. , The bad part of having nothing to do is that you never know when you are through. A Plattsmouth man says he read where a certain car manufacturer claims they together in seven minutes.; He doesn t doubt it. In fact, he thinks he bought the car. A local little boy reports they never say prayers at their house before eating as his mother is a good cook. Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way. Our doctor cured one woman patient of her nervousness. He told her it was a sign of old age. good reason why the Gov- crnment should not take whatever steps every year to provide airplane service to larger cities and other millions every year i sieamsmp service world. The Rural Electrification program, in-'and goes after it. foot on a battleship, the U. S. S. have only one regret, that, as stituted less than twenty years ago, hasj one of the most interesting Kentucky. As early as 12 he Lucas' leadership in the senate done much to revolutionize life in rural' developments about Jimmy showed his seamanship and ; jS developing, the quality of his areas. Bv making electricity available to Roosevelt is the group of young-isPunk whiIe sailing off the New, goif game is rapidly deteriorat those who live on our farms, the agency sters around him. It is remi- England coast m a whaleboat j ing. Vina not nn 1 - arlrlarl nnvriri ionrti tr fnrm i niscent of the vounc Democrats --witn nis grandfather. .Several Afterward, Lucas challenged . ...... city, where. Mr. Varner was, manager of' the newly opened Hinky-Dinky store . . . J. Hyde Sweet, editor of the News-Press,' was honored at a banquet, attended by 200 at Nebraska City when he was presented with the Rotary medal for distinguished community service . . . Uoly Rosary church received gift of a wooden carved statue of St. Wenceslaus, king and Martyr of Czechs especially made for this church in Mo ravia ... TEN YEARS AGO George Swatek received fine promo tion in the offices of the highway depart ment at the state capitol, succeeding Jerry Briggs as material engineer . . . Miss June Keil, student at Peru State Teachers' Col lege, was made a member of the reception committee for Peru's all-girl's formal held . . . The 10th grade English j " 1 A A 1- Tl V . ii ciass accompanied Dy ineir teacner, aiiss Estelle Baird, were guests of the Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Company . . . Local grocery ads carried Butternut cof fee at 27c for one pound, 48c for two pounds ... (Copyright, 1949, By the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: JIMMY ROOSEVELT NOW. CHARTING STRAIGHT POLITICAL COURSE; KNOWS WHAT HE WANTS AND GOES AFTER IT; CAN WIN CALIFORNIA DEMO CRATS' NOMINATION FOR GOV ERNOR, DESPITE TRUMAN; RE BELLIOUS ADMIRALS BACK ON BOARD AS SHERMAN SHOWS FIRM HAND. 1 LOS ANGELES. It looks like Jimmy Roosevelt is definitely coming into his own. ! Once a callow youth, floundering un der the weight of a famous name, Jimmy dealt with almost anybody who. came along. At one time he was the political pad of Mayor James Curley of Boston. Another time his life insurance sales to Georffo Washington Hill of the American"! u .. r .J3 j 4. l l ii n i fl piwiMa TF ' 'n . ' l ii i ; ArY&igMAT-M If! tmb.la . I ; '1 i " y STARTING- VxJsS I ! 1 I I, iWr- ll N 1 cam I Go ? CAN 1 f IpSS M ' U I yMAItM PO V2' Vli TiLL WE. jij: I 1 W PlCCO-. . iT' V CMEBRUtAPBRSs ' ji :l lr - velt family. However. Jimmie is 42 now. and the years have done some- thing to him. He has excellent Political judgment. He is care- lul about friends. And most im- between p ' "ulc- ziuumui oucnuau ui-1 to senate xviajoniy i,eaaer &coit chart a straight political course, cided upon a naval career at i Lucas. Mischievously the sena Jimmv knows what he wants the aae of six when he first set : tnr fmm Arkansas rnnelnrlpH: "I A . C i . K! JmV, j ui 111a lamci a uay, nic yuuug DeoDle who would fieht and die politically to defend the name of Roosevelt. Those young Dem ocrats of 1933 have now put cn age, in some cases mould and crust. But a new generation has come along in California and their adoration of Jimmy Roosevelt is probably greater than that once given his father. Jfmmie is amazingly popular in, California. When he goes in to a restaurant, a political meet ing, or any place where people gather the music stops, or else begins, or a whisper sweeps over the room. You can write it down that he can win the Dem ocratic nomination for governor in a walk, whether Truman sup ports him or not. Note The president's ire at those who supported Eisenhower before the Philadelphia conven tion has changed toward Mayor O'Dwyer of New York, Jack Ar vey, the political boss of Chi cago; Senator Douglas of Illi nois and. various others. His peeve against Jimmy Roosevelt probably results not so much from the Eisenhower incident but from his jealousy for all things Rooseveltian. ADM. SHERMAN SHOWS SPUNK On the west coast where the admirals first hatched their re volt things are a lot different now that Adm. Forrest Sherman has taken over the navy helm. He's steering a steady course and rebellious admirals are climbing back aboard. Sherman's policy is friendly but firm. He demonstrated that he could use an iron hand not only by abolishing operation 23, the navy unit propaganda unit, but by cracking down on anoth er navy propaganda nest at Pensacola, Fla. There, the navy was even mimeographing form letters of complaint to con gressmen, then handing them out to the congressmen's consti tuents to sign. But Admiral Sherman sent hi-? deputy, Adm. John Price, to Pensacola, and . stopped the smear campaign. Adm. John Reeves, in charge of the opera tion, is being replaced and will retire in April. Simultaneously, Sherman showed he wasn't a yes-man by letting Capt. John Crommelin off with a sharp rebuke. This was a decision which Rear Adm. George Russell, the navy judge advocate, urged Sherman to duck, and dump in the lap of Secretary of the Navy Matthews. But Sherman replied: "Crom melin is under my command, and I'll take the responsibility." Though Sherman had been smeared by his fellow admirals as a "quisling," he didn't barge into his new office swinging the ax. He started bv "pom? to LUCAS' LEADERSHIP school." and calling in each bu- reau chief" to brin him up to date cn naval affairs. Result: . peace and order is beginning; to j come back to the armed forces.. XT . A i 1 O , . J,. milPS Off Shore. hlS grandfather ' " : Ied at the helm, and young Sherman brought the- boat home safely through choppy water. GOVERNORS ROW OVER SUBSIDIES Two neighboring governors J. Bracken Lee of Utah and John W. Bonner of Montana got into a row over mine subsidies the other day at a closed meet ing of 13 western governors at Salt Lake City. The row started after the gov ernors heard a mining industry spokesman. Carl Trauerman, plead for higher tariffs, a free gold market and of all things federal subsidies. This is the first time the mining industry, considered a bulwark of free en terprise, has joined the chorus crying fGr a government hand out. Montana's Bonner agreed that federal subsidies were necessary to keep the small mines operat ing, argued that it was sound defense policy to have strategic metals pouring into our stock pile. But Utah's Lee snorted thp.t the "less we have to do with the federal government the better," and urged the governors not lo undertake anything they couldn't do on their own. Lee's little speech didn't go over with the mining industry, however, which happens to be the principal industry in Utah and which does not agree with the GOP cry of "welfare state" at least when it comes to min ing. Note: Lee also opposed feder al aid to education, which has been sponsored in congress by Utah's Sen. Elbert Tnomas in fact, Lee was against everything that emanated from Washington even tangled with California's Gov. Earl Warren over rent con trol. Warren maintained tnnt rent control was still necessary in some California cities no matter what the situation was m Utah. brain 1. Which of these metals requires the most heat to melt? (a) gold, b) copper, (c) steel, (d) silver. 2. Builders of the U. N. headquarters in Manhattan inscribed 1949 on the cornerstone in Roman numerals. This year in Roman numerals is (a) MCMX1X. (b) MCMLIX. (c) MCMXLIX. 3. Germany is now two nations. It was first unified in (a) 1850. (b) 1871, C) 1900, (d) 1648. 4. Norway's parliament is called (a) Storting, (b) Snorting, (C) Rigsdag. (d Braylung. 5. The Nuremberg laws were (a) a Nazi ban on American literature, (b) Hitler's anti-semitic legislation, (c) roles of con duct for American-occupied Germany. ANSWERS 1. e) Sll. S. e MCMXLIX. 5. b IM'I. after Pranea-Prasslaa war, aadar Emprr William t ( Prasi. 4. (a Storting. 6. b HiUer's aatl-aemltU l(llaUa. A remark on the senate floor cost Arkansas Sen. Bill Ful bright $20. On the closing day of congress. Fulbright paid glowing tribute , . - . -r , n . . TTnlhr o-hr tn HAfenH h k -nrris .in munj,"v -..-. the golf links. Shooting a neat 76, Lucas not only trimmed Fill bright but collected a $20 bet. aivo Berdina Rueter Alvo's volleyball and basket ball teams will start the sea son off by playing Avoca in both games November 15th at Avoca. Let's all be there and root for our team. Ronald Kinney has purchas ed a Ford car. Mr. and Mrs. Cleo Printz and family have moved from their home in Nehawka to the form er Dick Schuelke property in the east part of Alvo. Several of the Alvo students attended Boys' and Girls' Coun ty Government at Plattsmouth November 9th. All the students reported a wonderful time when they returned home. Supt. and Mrs. W. W. Schneider, Mrs. Ma bel Elliott and Mrs. Erwin Heier accompanied the youngsters to Plattsmouth. Misses Berdina, Bernice and Jeanette Rueter were Monday evening visitors of Phyllis and Barbara Marcoe, in honor ol Barbara's 16th birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred McNeese and family and Mr. and Mrs. Don McNeese and Rickey ol Lincoln, visited in Missouri over the week end. Billy Meyers of Alvo, visited at Greenwood high school, No vember 9th. Clyde Skinners have moved to their new home west of the school building. A new 'business has been started in Alvo. Mr. and Mrs. Stephenson have started a candy factory. Mrs. Harry Aden has purch ased some Chincillas and is novt raising them. budge? A t A l m rooooq ! m s ium inui THE results of the first session of the 81st congress apparently means one thing to Den-.ccratic leaders and another to Republican leaders. What the results irean to the people themselves likely will determine the result of the congres sional elections in November. 1930. Here are statements from the op posite s'des of the political fence with reference to the congress: From the Democratic side. " President Truman: "I am con fident the American people will atree that the results have heen well worth vhile." Sen. Scott W. Lucas f Illinois, ma jority floor leader in the sen ate: "Outstanding progress in far-reaching progressive legis lation." Sen. Francis J. Myers f Pennsylvania, majority whip f the senate: "Congress en acted most of the administra tive program not out of blind acceptance, but out of thorough going. Intensive, critical and extended study of the merits." From the Republican side. Sen. Kenneth S. V.'herry f Nebraska, minority floor leader in the senate: "The session's accomplishments constitute a record of reckless dis regard of the taxpayers and the importance of stability in o-:r na tional economy." Sen. R"" : t A. Taft of Ohio, chairman of l" '- OOP policy committee: "None of ' (the ten major actions) is rart of his Fair Deal nroe ": ir They re things on which there wai more or less bipartisan agree ment in most cases." The box scare of legislation shows that of the 68 legislative proposals made by the Presi dent this year, 30 of them were enacted into law and have been sent to the President for signa ture. Although some of them were not according to his rec ommendations, they were not modified so that the President vetoed them, for he has signed 23 of the SS measures enacted Into law. Seven passed late in the session, awaited his signature. Of the re maining 38 Trumai proposals, 13 lvere passed by one house or an other. These will be taken up in the second session at the same stage they were left by this ses sion. None of these measures has to be introduced again. In addition. seven more measures were ap proved by a committee in either house or senate but did not see The Rock Island extra gans is now working in Alvo. Lucille Taylor spent the week end with her sister, Mrs. Ivan Heier and family. The monthly Alvo PTA meet ing will be held Nov. 17th in the school auditorium. Frozen Assets KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (U.R) The assets of Jack Frost of Knox ville, police discovered, were just frozen, not stolen. Frost report ed $20 missing from his pants at home, but officers found that his wife had borrowed the money. In India, the King of England is given the title of Emperor. Crossword Puzzle HORIZONTAL 1 Mtriral pompoaition 5 Everi rcn trea B Invm'er of tha phora 12 Competent IS Yellavr buglo 14 Succulent plant 10 Furnlahad with f'.l . IT Ontiral ( 1 i "ion . 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They will be brought to the floor in the next session. No reports were made by eitlur senate or house committee on lo proposals, and two proposals wer. definitely rejected repeal of tit Taft-Hartley act and creation of a welfare department u;.der the re organization act. Since conjures adjourned sine die. the President Iiuk in dicated he will ask fur a now tax bill in the second session, blaming the deficit in govern ment receipts now on the t- bill passed by th. 8uth on gress. This took five billion dol lars off the tax duplicates, a major portion from income tax in the higher income brackets. Concerning the farm pro gram, the concensus is that the bill provides for about a pr cent overall increase in tin farm price supports, induding many additional agricultural products. President Trumr.n will advise his department of defense not to spend the additional money voted by con press for a oS-group air force. Tb President, it will be remembered, asked for n 4S-group air force. The next session of congress will spend much time considering tlw c ffect of government subsidies on various segments of the nation's economy. Congressior.pl Quarter ly, a non-political fact-finding ser vice in Washington, shows tht iti t - paft It years. 1034 through ruUsiriy expe-.d -lures hav- ; to-ir.iCd to approximately 17 bil lions. Tlr.ny fvcrrmcnf.il pr""ces CMne urrtcr the head uf Mi-i-dic. Th-r arc millions of lars in t.x refunds to lug bii-:-ness and s&me two billions uf dollars in deficit finaiici"r iti the postal department; billions have gone into agricultural sub sidy. More millions have gone into the merchant marine and into the aircraft fakdnasry. Dur ing the wax maja3e53kn were poured Into the 'tfgmmg tndos- ', try to up pro&sJu of str- ' tegic materials Fjprrble tar- ' iffs and export ponOoa re re garded as subsidies, flMfUkr Subsidies have beease& In the forest service, grazing lands and the whole grant-in-aid program whereby the government pays a portion of the cost of roads, hos pitals, public buildings and health services. Squirrels Raid Larder Memphis, Tenn. u.R Mrs, William D. Dunkley left her sack of groceries in the car after . she finished, her daily shopping. . By the time she returned. ' squirrels had broken open a j loaf of sliced bread and taken it away piece-by-piece to their i tree-home nearby. Many Run for Office BOSTON (U.R) Some Massa chusetts citizens will have to take plenty of time to vote in the municipal elections in No- vember. So many candidates are j running for office that the bal i lot in Worcester will be five feet : long and in Medford, six feet. 10 II 14 Id 10 27 42 4J 4? V4 5? 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